FEAR FALLS BURNING "The Infinite Sea of Sustain" Audio DVD

Another project that is becoming far too prolific for me to keep up with but is way too good to fall behind on. This one was a no-brainer...six live concerts captured in crystalline audio over the course of FFB's European tour from 2005, all loaded on to one audio dvd for seriously extended play, along with a few mysterious photographs of the man in action as the music drifts by. And i really think drift is the most appropriate word here, as all of these pieces enswirl you in their narcoleptic hypnogogy and pull you deep down into a lovely little aura of relaxation and meditation. Listening to this album has actually eased my recents stresses as of late and not much else ahs been able to, aside from the outings with friends and games of "Settlers of catan" that i have recently been involved in. So yes, i really really like this record. But you may be wondering just who the hell FFB is and why i'm so down with his stuff. FFB is the new project begun a few years ago by the dude who was known as Projekt/Release recording artist vidnaObmana-FFB was born of a desire to revert back to guitar playing and live performance. Every FFB piece is a live real time composition, with the sounds fed through walls of pedals, loops and delays until they endlessly recycle and form new walls of sound of their own accord, more or less. It's a master class in layering and improvised composition and due to the ease of the way this music is presented, recordings are multitudinous-i have a good portion of what FFB has done thus far but some i've just missed out on due to financial constraint and lazing up on the output watching. This one is well worth your dollars, though, and is still available, and the packaging is pretty damn exquisite-it's like a velour wood case-you have to really caress it to see what i'm saying, but it's nice. The sound is towering and monolithic, the drones warm and inviting and so so comforting once you slip into them. It's very much in the vein of other soundlords like Troum, Nadja/Aidan Baker, Final, etc...hazy sounscapes blurred with melancholy and yearning, a reaching for something more, a desire to connect. I love this band, i really do, rapidly becoming a fave in my assemblage of drone albums and requisite late night listening when i'm feeling lonely or upset (which is a lot right now.) I would love to see FFB live, hopefully they'll get to the states soon so i can witness the haze in all it's volume drenched glory, but until then these live shows will have to suffice...arriving soon at my door will be the equally massive (and i mean it) 5LP set on tonefloat records, where FFB is remixed/reprocessed by such greats as Nadja, Final, Birchville Cat Motel, Stefano Pilia, et al. Probably will be the release of the year, in my humble opinion. Awesome and beautiful....